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Thing is, in Shakespeare’s time the it was expected that groundlings would heckle and shout at the actors during the show. The richer people in the good seats less so.
I don’t know if this fact undermines the analogy or strengthens it.
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Remember when the King of the Netherlands celebrated his birthday with a big party to calm away revolution by putting on La Muette and hiring the singer Adolphe Nouritt (This is like calming away revolution by putting on a production of Les Miserables starring Rage Against the Machine and Boots Riley.)
And then Nouritt sings “Aux Armes” in the third act on a top C, and they do. And now we unfortunately have Belgium.
Not sure where I’m going with this either…
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